Zip lists with F#

Problem Statement:

Zip two lists of Integers.

If the lists are of unequal length, return None; otherwise return Some of (int*int) list.

Solution:

Following naïve solution recurses over elements of the lists, and creates tuple, as part of the zip operation. If both lists are empty, it returns Some [].

let rec zipTwo (x:int list) (y: int list) : ((int*int) list) option =
match x,y with
| ([], []) -> Some []
| (xhd::xtl, yhd::ytl) ->
match zipTwo xtl ytl with
| None -> None
| Some lst -> Some ((xhd,yhd)::lst)
| (_,_) -> None
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The unequal length case is handled by the pattern outlined in line 8 , which simply returns None. Subsequent return calls of the recursion detect it and simply return None.

Thus, resultant signature of zipTwo is given by:

val zipTwo : x:int list -> y:int list -> (int * int) list option
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Output:

> zipTwo [] [];;
val it : (int * int) list option = Some []
> zipTwo [1;2] [2;4;8];;
val it : (int * int) list option = None
> zipTwo [1;2;3] [2;4;8];;
val it : (int * int) list option = Some [(1, 2); (2, 4); (3, 8)]
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